[textminer]

The one bit of sugar in Python that always throws me off. Since the inner argument is written first in the comprehension, my intuition is that I'll add the iteration statements as I expand out to a slightly-higher loop. Nope!

[andreasvc]

It's not necessarily the inner argument that's written first:

    >>> [a for a in range(3) for b in range(2)]
    [0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 2]

It's just that for every iteration of the inner loop, it is evaluated and added to the result.

Once you keep in mind that their order has the same meaning as with normal for loops it's not so tricky. You can even indent them that way to make that more obvious.